"The Electronic Privacy Information Center is on the front lines of the most important civil liberties issues of our age."- Bruce Schneier

"Privacy in the Modern Age continues EPIC's courageous work as a standard-bearer of democratic values."-Shoshana Zuboff

The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls, Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats, Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes, Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information, our medical records are available for sale to strangers, our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity, and small robots patrol our schoolyards while drones may soon fill our skies.

The contributors to this anthology don't simply describe these problems or warn about the loss of privacy- they propose solutions.

Marc Rotenberg is president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). He served as counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee and teaches at Georgetown University Law Center. EPIC is a public interest research organization in Washington, D.C., established to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues.